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Boo no more Accelerated Beta Test. Wonder whether it was the extreme swinginess of that card, or just that they really wanted Project Vitruvius and also for HB to not have multiple 3/2s in the core. Probably some of both.

It could be fun to figure out the "revised core only" meta. They definitely made enough big changes that it's going to look different from "original core only" meta, that's for sure.

Also can confirm that this was Damon's brainchild, though with input from other FFG folks it seems!

I knew this was the case and still wish to joke about it simply being his final solution to Desperado.

But gosh, I'm just not excited in the least. I guess Netrunner really is dead to me. That's a realization ...

Sorry to hear that. Personally, I'm pumped about this. I wanna see how Netrunner shakes out when all these core staples are gone. It's gonna be so different and new, and that's exciting! I'm legit interested in a Core 2.0 only tournament even.

Also, the new cycle is taking us to Africa, and that's gonna be amazing! I've been waiting and hoping for this ever since they talked about Beanstalk 2.0 being built in the Worlds of Android book.

This Worlds is gonna be a memorial in so many ways and that's kind of neat.

In tone, similar. Massive corps, lone hackers and young punks fighting back where they can and/or just trying to make a living, battles in cyberspace. I personally enjoy the fiction a lot! There's nowhere near as good a story in any of the inserts (and the mini novellas are fine but not world-shaking), but the world they create is pretty great.

I don't think I lied about anything regarding this project. It was something Lukas Litzsinger and I had been on about for a long while. We had finally cooked up a plan that we thought might be able to sell the execs on it. It was Lukas who did the presentation and I fielded questions and together we managed to sway them. I then spent a LOT of time trying to make an actual product that they would sign off on once Lukas sold them on the need.

Michael Boggs was the one who over saw the final development of the product, and is probably largely responsible for it getting announced now.

A real team effort. I know that when we're behind the monolithic double F logo it seems like we don't care and maybe even take you guys for granted, nothing can be further from the truth. We love this and every other game we design and develop for, but when you work for a company there is always a very large team of people behind every product and every decision and it takes time to affect change. None of us are perfect but we will do everything we can to make the best games we can.

Opinions: Monitor is a solid B, Worlds of Android is a sweet artbook and B+. Everything else I've read is pretty darn bad.

The old novels are licensed fiction, probably about as good as Warhammer 40k or D&D. The Identity trilogy is probably the best, and FreeFall is decent. Strange Flesh is the worst. They all predate Netrunner though, so don't really talk about that aspect of it much.
I thought Monsterslayer was a good Novella and would agree that Monitor is B. I haven't read the third. I probably will at some point just so I have the dubious distinction of reading all the fiction.